Archives - 25 May 2017, Thursday

John Voelcker May 25, 2017 Follow John Add to circle 2017 Toyota Prius Enlarge Photo California has always been a bellwether for automotive trends, and it leads every other state by far in the volumes of plug-in electric cars sold. It also led in national sales of hybrid cars for many...

2015 Nissan Leaf with CHAdeMO fast-charging cable plugged in [photo John Briggs] Enlarge Photo California already offers generous incentives to get consumers into electric vehicles, but now the electric utility Southern California Edison has joined in. SCE has announced what it calls ...

John Voelcker May 25, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Donald Trump Enlarge Photo During President Donald J. Trump's half-hour meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican yesterday, the pope gave the president a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel em...

Opel began deliveries of the first Opel Ampera-e EVs to Norwegian customers, fulfilling the brand’s promise to offer a long-range affordable electric vehicle. More will naturally follow in the coming days and weeks. To date, Opel has already received more than 4,000 customer orders fo...

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India’s electric mobility mission envisages to put 6 million electric vehicles on roads by 2020 and aims to make the country an all-electric vehicle market by 2030. So far, electric vehicle sales haven’t found many takers in the absence of incentives, infrastructure and (till now) a p...

Northern Powergrid, the company responsible for the network that keeps the lights on for 3.9 million homes and businesses across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, and the leading electric vehicle manufacturer Nissan have signed an industry-leading partnership. The t...

But today you can order a Bolt EV which began sales in Oregon and California last October, is rolling out across the country as we speak, and to be nationally available by summer. It won’t have to be an option-packed version stickering a few thousand higher than base, as the Model 3 i...

2017 Tesla Model S Enlarge Photo Tesla had long been a darling of Consumer Reports magazine since the time the Model S electric car was first revealed, and it consistently scored well in the magazine's tests. However, when Tesla pulled its automatic emergency braking feature when it s...

Specifications for the upcoming Tesla Model 3 sedan have been unveiled through a leaked product sheet from an apparent inside source. The product sheet (below), which was posted on Model 3 Owners Club forum, compares the Model 3’s performance parameters and features with those of the ...

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John Voelcker May 25, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Tesla Model 3 spotted at service center Enlarge Photo Electric-car maker Tesla doesn't announce models in the usual fashion. It trickles out bits and pieces of information, often in the form of tweets from CEO Elon Musk, punctuated ...

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The German plug-in electric car market registered 3,546 registrations, up 132% Year-on-Year, pulling the market share to over 1.2%. The Audi A3 e-Tron was the leader in April, with 380 units, followed by another plug-in hybrid model, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (294 units), with the...

Innovation has no secret for GM and after tapping into hybrid and electric engine technologies, fuel-cell is its next target. In an interview with Trucks.com , GM’s global fuel-cell business director Charles Freese seemed confident that hydrogen will become a next big step in transpor...

The California Air Resources Board this week issued a letter to Volkswagen Group asking it to provide more details on the zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure it plans to implement across the United States between 2018 and 2020. CARB’s concern is over VW’s $800 million commitme...

Southern California Edison is offering people who drive a plug-in or electric car a one time cash rebate of $450. What makes it different from other EV rebate programs is that it applies to second and third owners and those who lease cars as well. Typically, an EV rebate like the fede...

The first teaser image of the second-generation Nissan LEAF electric car. A completely redesigned future version of the Nissan LEAF will be unveiled in Tokyo on Sept. 6. To build excitement, Nissan has released a teaser image (of the headlight) in advance of the September event. The c...

A worker safety advocacy group says that injuries at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif.-based plant are much higher than the industry average. The findings by Worksafe looked at the years 2014 and 2015, with a preliminary study of 2016 data finding injury reports to be on a similar track. The ad...